In just a few hours, we’ll be leaving the Johnson Family compound and heading back North up I-5. The trip has been interesting, and also relaxing. Getting away from our lives for a few days was a nice break, but it will be very nice to reclaim them.

The cats might also miss us, but somehow I doubt it.

To recap:

We drove

Stopped driving

Ate

Broke the law

Stopped driving

Slept

Woke up

Ate

Drove

Stopped driving

Ate

Went to Church

Ate

Woke up

Ate

Opened loot like a pack of maddened weasels

Ate

Ate

Ate

Woke up

Ate

Saw Sherlock Holmes, ate some more

Ate

Constructed a website

Destroyed a website

Ate consolation Ice Cream

Re-installed software in an attempt to reconstruct a website

Slept

At least, the last bit is true for most folks. I’m running on more or less the same schedule as usual, which means my 5 AM wake-up call is probably my formal entry into Sunday. I’ll take a shower here in a bit, dress, and wait for everyone else to wake up. If WordPress ever finishes installing on L’ Father’s web space, I’ll rebuild his page sometime today.

Oops.

Luckily, we wrote everything down, and the files we need are already uploaded. It’s just a matter of re-entering information and a small spot of coding, then he’ll be up and running.

I also did a bit of writing and plotting in my head between meals and not-sleeps. When I get back to the casa, I expect I’ll be a bit more productive than I was in the Month of December. I need to do some edits on the new book, getting it all into one place. But the “new” short piece (I’ve been kicking it around for a few years now) turned a corner on our first day here, and I’m just itching to get back into it.

You are correct in the not so sleepy department. But I did pull together a few thousand words on the new novel over the last two days, so I’ve got that going for me. Should be finished with the first “half” tomorrow, then I’ll edit it up real nice.